Comparing Water Coolers: We Follow Your Lead

Acoustic Performance Benchmarks

The Freezone, HyperTX 2, and Swiftech @ 7v were all very quiet. The Swiftech at 12v made a notable noise, and the Eliminator on High was loud enough to be annoying.

It's interesting that the Swiftech H20-120 @ 12v offers almost identical thermal performance under load to the Eliminator - its closest competitor in the price segment - while producing notably less noise.

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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.